I'm starting a series today called "Daily-Hell."
The fact of the matter is that not a single one of us know anything about Hades and Eternal Fire, other then the notions that come from exposure to theological viewpoints, or spiritual intuition / revelation. Whatever the case may be, "Hell-in-the-future" is exists in our minds as an abstraction or concept. And because of this, when pondering how Jesus saves from "Hell-in-the-future" we conceive of a mere abstract rescue. It can't be realized, this side of the grave.
What are the limits of the rescue that the Lord Jesus provides? Is He only saving people from an abstract hell-in-the-future? Does He do more then rescue from that Hell? Does Jesus rescue us from our daily-hell?
What I am calling "Daily-Hell" is the real daily misery that life brings us, and the real separation from God in this realm, and on this side of the grave. Daily-Hell needs no abstraction or conceptualization, because we all experience it, and we all have deep abiding wounds from it leading us to despair. Nobody has escaped harm from our daily-hell, and all of us could use a rescue from daily-hell, on a daily basis.
I can reach back in history to how I have been wounded growing up, but I can also look only hours back to realize things that recently occur to me from which Jesus did rescue me or He could have rescued me. Daily-hell is all around, and so is God's grace to rescue me from it.
We don't explore daily-hell to wallow in it and over-expose our focus to things that have brought us down, but we glance back to realize what went wrong so that we might look to Jesus for a way around these things when we run across them again and again ... and thereby find His WAY to escape daily-hell. It is with this highest hope that I want to bring the spiral of despair into the light, so that we can all agree that we loom in the danger and trouble over which we have no victory apart from the Lord Jesus.
To be continued ...
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